Well now, responsible gun carriers doing the right thing. How about that? I’ll bet if they did have a clear shot, they would have taken it. But you seem to imply with your “two words” that a clear shot is never available. Many lives can be saved if responsible gun owners have the legal ability to protect themselves and others.

Dano,
So are you now advocating the governmental control of all private businesses? No more free trade or free markets? Only big government can decide who can open a business and what they can sell? Do you support a communist system here in the USA? Please take your left wing wacko ideas to another country. Here in America, we like our freedom and liberties.

Who said anything about a magazine with a large capacity for hunting??? I want a large magazine to protect my home from multiple intruders. Heck, even if banned, the potential intruders will probably have illegal guns and magazines to begin with, so why am I being restricted???

If a legal gun carrier was seated a short distance away he/she could easily have gotten off a few direct hits, even with smoke. This could have saved many lives. And don’t tell me about his “bullet proof” suit. A few hits with a decent caliber hand gun may not penetrate the suit but the impact will knock you down or off balance enough for you or others to attack. Once you are down in a suit like that you are the equivalent of a turtle stuck on its back.

If nothing else, at least they would have had a chance. Better than being a sitting duck!

Dear Mark,
You can write all the anti-gun articles that you want but the fact remains that guns exist and no law or laws is going to stop nuts from using them in their crazy attacks. Do you think that you have a magic wand that will simply make all guns disappear? Criminals will always find a way to get their hands on them no matter the law. You are only stopping the law abiding citizen from the ability to protect him/her self. I can not imagine the horror of being trapped in that theater without the ability to even try to defend myself. You want to make everyone a sitting duck. Why don’t you site the endless list of violent attacks that have been thwarted by legal gun owners protecting themselves? Now THAT would be balanced reporting for once.

Blah, blah, blah…I drive past red light cameras all the time. I have never received a ticket or been in an accident. Why, you ask? Well, I leave a safe following distance, stop at yellow and red lights and do not drive at excessive speeds through intersections. Simple.

Technically true, but would he be willing to testify willingly? I think not, and that speaks volumes about his character. By claiming that “no evidence whatsoever that I was driving my car” he is implying that he was not in fact driving. Typical lawyer, using a legal tactic to lie in court. Slimeball.

So your answer is what? Make all guns illegal? Leaving the citizens defenseless, not to mention a violation of the Bill of Rights, while leaving illegal guns in the hands of criminals? Of course .001% of legally purchased guns are used for nefarious reasons but you imply penalizing the 99.99% of the law abiding citizens. Sometimes, you can’t always tell who the one in a million nut is going to be.

If this nut did not have access to guns legally he surely would have found an illegal way to get them or hell, just toss a fire bomb into a theater instead. Don’t blame the legal gun, blame the nut-job.

And by the way, stay off your neighbor’s lawn. (In the long run, how many people did your neighbor shoot anyway???)

What “group” did he belong to? If you mean the “crazy people” group then I agree with you because other than that this guy appears not to have any ties with any radical religious or anti-government terrorist group.